visage
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman and from Old French visage, from vis, from Vulgar Latin as if *visāticum, from Latin visus (“a look, vision”), from vidēre (“to see”); see vision.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
visage (plural visages)
- Countenance; appearance; one's face.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:countenance
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XX, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., OCLC 34363729, page 334:
- Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
countenance; appearance; face
Further reading[edit]
- visage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- visage in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French visage, from vis (from Latin visus) + -age, or possibly a Vulgar Latin *visāticum.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
visage m (plural visages)
- face (anatomy)
Synonyms[edit]
- (vulgar) tronche
- (slang) bouille
- (vulgar) gueule
- face (only used in certain constructions, or in Canada)
- figure
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “visage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old French visage.
Noun[edit]
visage (plural visages)
Synonyms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- English: visage
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
vis + -age, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *visāticum, from Latin visus. Compare Old Occitan vizatge.
Noun[edit]
visage m (oblique plural visages, nominative singular visages, nominative plural visage)
Synonyms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
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